Windows Server 2008 is most recent Windows Server operating system. With Server 2008 you can expand, transport, and run rich user experiences and applications, give a highly safe network infrastructure, and raise technological effectiveness and value within association. Windows Server 2008 has many latest aspects and also develops on current aspects of earlier server operating systems.

Windows Server Hyper-V permits you to create better utilize of your server hardware assets by consolidating many server roles as detach virtual machines running on an only physical device. You can also run many operating systems like Windows, Linux, and others all in parallel on a single server.

Web Applications and Hosting

Windows Server 2008 appears with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0), a Web server and security improved, simple to run platform for expanding and dependably hosting Web applications and services.

High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing (HPC) instead utilizes processing power of many systems to procedure commands for an application. It does this by distributing processing load across many systems to permit for quicker processing of data. Windows HPC Server 2008 is built on Windows Server 2008 and can capably scale to many processing cores to develop productivity, and decrease trouble of HPC environment.

High Security

Windows Server 2008 has been toughened to assist defend against failure and some latest technologies assist avoid unauthorized connections to networks, servers, data, and user accounts.

Server Core Installation

Server Core installation choice of Windows Server 2008 operating system gives a smallest atmosphere for running particular server roles that decreases maintenance and management necessities for those server roles. To give this least environment, a Server Core installation installs only subset of binaries that are necessary by supported server roles.

Windows Server 2008 will be released with 8 editions which include:

Windows Server 2008 Standard
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
Windows Web Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems
Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V

System Requirements

Processor
Minimum: 1 GHz (x86) or 1.4 GHz (x64)
Recommended: 2 GHz or faster
An Intel Itanium 2 processor is necessary for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems

Memory

Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Recommended: 2 GB RAM or greater
Maximum (32-bit systems): 4 GB (Standard) or 64 GB (Enterprise and Datacenter)
Maximum (64-bit systems): 32 GB (Standard) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium Based Systems)

Disk Space

Minimum: 10 GB
Recommended: 40 GB or greater.